Job description
Job Title: Cover Supervisor
Location: Barnsley
Salary: £460 – £650 per week (depending on experience and qualifications)
Contract Type: Long-term / Temporary, Full-time / Part-time
Start Date: Immediate
Looking for a role where you can lead a classroom, support students and enjoy real variety in your working week? A friendly secondary school in the Barnsley area is looking for a reliable Cover Supervisor to join them straight away.
About the Role:
Stepping in as a Cover Supervisor, you will oversee classes across a variety of subjects, delivering pre-planned lessons and making sure students remain on task and engaged. You will be the person who keeps the school day running smoothly when teachers are absent, managing behaviour fairly and helping every pupil get the most out of their lessons. It is a role that suits someone who enjoys responsibility, adapts easily and takes satisfaction from knowing their presence makes a real difference.
About the School:
This inclusive secondary school places a strong emphasis on respect, high expectations and positive relationships across its community. You will be joining a supportive staff team where cover supervisors are treated as valued colleagues, and where the focus is always on giving students the best possible learning experience.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver pre-set lessons to classes across a range of subjects and year groups.
- Maintain good order in the classroom and manage behaviour in line with school policy.
- Support students in staying focused, engaged and working to the best of their ability.
- Respond to individual needs and provide additional support where required.
- Complete registers, report on work completed and raise any concerns with relevant staff.
- Work closely with teaching and pastoral teams to support continuity of learning.
Requirements:
- Experience of working with young people, ideally within a school setting.
- Confidence in leading a class and managing behaviour positively.
- Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- A flexible, patient and level-headed approach.
- The ability to quickly build positive relationships with students.
- A genuine interest in education and helping young people progress.
To work with GSL Education as a Cover Supervisor, you should:
- Have the right to work in the UK.
- Have an up-to-date CV with two relevant references from within the last two years.
- Have an enhanced DBS registered to the Update Service or be willing to apply for one through GSL Education.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including providing an enhanced DBS certificate registered on the update service, or completing an application for a new check.
We also offer, via our partner, access to accredited Education-relevant CPD courses.
In addition to that, GSL Education are currently offering £100 for the successful referral of either Teachers or Teaching Assistants (Ts &Cs apply).
If this sounds like the right next step for you, we would love to receive your application.
To apply for this Cover Supervisor role, please submit your full and up-to-date CV today.
As an ethical, inclusive, and independent recruitment agency GSL Education are committed to providing quality teaching and support staff in schools throughout the local area.
For more information or to register your interest in this role, or to be considered, please click 'apply now' to submit your full and up-to-date CV. Paul Zivkovic at GSL Education South Yorkshire will be in touch shortly.